RETIRED & TIRED AMMISHADDAI MUST GO! Agitations Rise Over Moves To Retain Him On Contract

The embattled Commissioner General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Rev. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah has further ruffled feathers and sparked a steadily rising agitation in both high a low places over reports that he would continue to be in office after his due retirement date in October this year.

Calls from both within the GRA, corridors of power and notables within the governing party keep rising for him to leave office when his time is due  although there is a small fraction of persons who have their personal interests to protect and therefore are lobbying to have him retained on contract.

“The President is his own man and has the right to retain whoever he wants to retain and mostly such decisions are influenced by the type of reports that bet to his desk. He is human and could make the mistake of retaining Ammishaddai but such a mistake would be a politically suicidal one that is irrevocable, irreparable and catastrophic.

“It is not everything we want to go public but we all know the political implications of his continuous stay in office. After December 2020, Ammishaddai should have being fired if not for the fact that he himself is due for retirement is year and there is not much harm in just managing and tolerating him until October but reports that he or his assigns are lobbying for an extension of stay is extremely vexatious and would be very fiercely opposed by people he himself least expects”, The New Publisher was told at a top level meeting Sunday evening just before the paper went to bed.

Though there have been several agitations against Ammishaddai within the GRA itself, things started to get out of hand after a letter dated Monday, January 25, 2021 communicated to him through the Public Services Commission (PSC) that he had being elevated from Acting Commissioner-General  to the substantive Commissioner-General.

Apparently, the Executive Secretary to the President, Nana Bediatuo Asante in a letter dated December 19, 2020 had already confirmed Ammishaddai’s elevation.

Deep throats say another person had already being penciled for the position of Commissioner-General but, in the interest of the government and party, that name was hushed after news went public that the slot had been given to Ammishaddai.

The consensus, albeit done with some grumblings behind closed doors, was that the man himself retires this October therefore the wait would not cause much havoc.  It has become clear now that his proposed retention would certainly spark an unstoppable revolt with political implications.

The fact that some of the policies under his watch and the crude way it was communicated and implemented pitched the business and trading community against the government of  the day is one unresolved challenge.

Another group of agitators are thriving business owners who have sacrificed and sponsored the party over the decades but their businesses have dwindled over the last few years and they have reason to blame the GRA for the continuous losses.

More soon on the exact  ‘mafia’ members that stand to make personal gains as against the interest of the government and country if Ammishaddai is retained on contract after his retirement is due this October.